Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal issue of whether a man, about to hang for a murder he did not commit, should be punished for killing the hangman...
...benediction. The sentenced man also lowered his head-and then suddenly drove it into the hangman's belly, sending him hurtling off the scaffold to his death on the cobblestones below During the 24 hours set aside for a second executioner to get to Soledad City near the Mexican border, new evidence surfaced, exonerating the "murderer" of his original charge. But what about the murder he now had committed...
...embodied in the judge of the second murder trial, Benjamin Morales Lewis, 29. As he announces in his decision, "We have no precedents. We have only our own precarious humanity," no one's humanity seems more precarious than Ben Lewis'. The son of the town's Mexican grande dame and of its late county sheriff (whose memory had been honored with Ben's appointment to the bench), he just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their...
Controlled Chaos. Albright also insists that live models be present while he paints. Among them have been a Mexican-Indian fisherman, a union leader and onetime bootlegger, an 81-year-old Rosicrucian monk, and Mary Lasker Block, the wife of a vice president of Inland Steel...
...Fundamental Task. The fiesta mood was well founded. Of twelve Presidents who have taken office since Mexico's 1910 revolution, Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like...